But instead of going over the bridge, head under it, where the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition (nbART) is unveiling "Plan Ahead," an environmental street art installation by the famous graffiti knitter herself, Magda Sayeg. Collaborating with the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn and the New York City Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Urban Art Program, “Plan Ahead” is a year-long installation of 300 iron rods on Kent Avenue between South 5th and South 6th Streets covered in colorful knit fabric. Magda Sayeg is not your typical street artist. Instead of painting walls or tagging buildings, she covers city surfaces with small hand knit cozies. Her delicate touch brings a sense of humanity back to the concrete and steel of the city.
BLNK: DAC’s Art Under The Bridge. Lines of people wait to see THE EXPERIENCE OF GREEN by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B.

Nguyen at DAC.
An Apartment Under The Bridge. Berlin-based urban intervention collective Stiftung Freizeit has designed an illusionary ‘Wohnzimmer’ under a bridge in Berlin.

Made with tape, this minimal but cosy ‘apartment’ combines the raw esthetics of grey concrete with the warm and intimate feeling of the typical German Wohnzimmer interior. Combining these two ingredients of what could be called Berlin style, the artists Inés Aubert and Rubén Jódar aim to make life a little more comfortable for those who spend their time on the streets. Their newly constructed space under the Warschauer Brücke has a very cheerless look and feel. It’s unclear whether the work is meant to include an argument about confort and domesticity of current public space. Anyway, the suggestion of the deer antler and the old-school lamp on the wall do improve some things here.
Christmas By The River. Christmas By The River. New Ideas for Breathing Life Into the Dark Public Spaces Under Elevated Structures. The High Line gave new hope to abandoned elevated structures across the United States, to the point that more or less every city wants something like it.

But the public spaces beneath active elevated road and rail beds remain at best largely underused, and at worst dark and dusty corridors of neglect. These areas are hardly scarce: there are some 700 miles of elevated transport structures in New York City alone, and ten times that in all America. Today the New York-based Design Trust for Public Space, which jumpstarted interest in the High Line with a 2002 report, has released a massive new mission paper called Under the Elevated, which hopes to do the same for the areas beneath road and rail infrastructure across the city. The report, done in partnership with the NYC Department of Transportation, is the result of a two-year study into these spaces.

It calls them “el-spaces.” Here’s the gist of the problem, as captured by the report: Division Street (Manhattan)
Young architects in action #3: Assemble. This article was originally published in Domus 960 / July/August 2012 Assemble has opened Sugarhouse Studios amid a cluster of former industrial warehouses in Stratford, lying in the shadow of the Olympic Park and unsightly residential developments.

It is part workspace for the young architecture collective, and part public space with a cinema, coffee house and pizza joint. On the day we met, a clipboard-wielding health inspector was eyeing up their kitchen. Meanwhile, Maria Lisogorskaya offered me a stonebaked pizza. None of the Cambridge architecture graduates in this collective — which at one point claimed to have more than 20 members — could have expected to be running such an operation back in 2010, when they found an article about the thousands of abandoned petrol stations in England and decided to find one and turn it into a project.